Moab/Utah trail closures possible EVERYONE PLEASE READ AND WRITE to your LEADERS!

TrAiLbUs1 · 05-14-2009, 08:21 PM

EVEN if you have never been to Moab...or Utah this is part of our wheeling community...Moab is one of the most spectacular places to visit let along be able to wheel on the red rocks. Please guys take some time to write to your leaders and tell them WE DONT WANT THIS!!

S. 799 America’s Red Rock Wilderness Act of 2009 will close the doors on Utah recreation

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Todd Ockert

E-mail: landuse@ufwda.org

Tulare, Ca. 11 May 2009

S. 799 America’s Red Rock Wilderness Act of 2009 will close the doors on Utah recreation!

The wilderness bills keep rolling along in Washington DC. They are after 9.5 million acres in Utah and the Red Rock area this time. The Omnibus bill was not enough, so now they want to surround Moab Utah with Wilderness!

Here are the areas they are attempting to make into wilderness in this bill.

Great Basin wilderness area – 2,239,700 acres

Zion and Mojave desert Wilderness area – 375,500 acres

Grand Staircase-Escalante Wilderness area – 1,729,540 acres

Moab-LA Sal Canyons Wilderness area – 296,800 acres

Henry Mountains Wilderness area – 434,300 acres

Glen Canyon Wilderness area – 902,000 acres

San Juan-Anasazi Wilderness area – 531,300 acres

Canyonlands Basin Wilderness area – 725,700 acres

San Rafael Swell Wilderness area – 1,106,900 acres

Book Cliffs and Uinta Basin Wilderness area – 1,168,800 acres

This bill was introduced by Sen Durbin of Illinois.

Sen Boxer, Barbara [CA] - 4/2/2009

Sen Cantwell, Maria [WA] - 4/2/2009

Sen Cardin, Benjamin L. [MD] - 4/2/2009

Sen Feingold, Russell D. [WI] - 4/2/2009

Sen Harkin, Tom [IA] - 4/2/2009

Sen Kennedy, Edward M. [MA] - 4/2/2009

Sen Kerry, John F. [MA] - 4/2/2009

Sen Lautenberg, Frank R. [NJ] - 4/2/2009

Sen Leahy, Patrick J. [VT] - 4/2/2009

Sen Lieberman, Joseph I. [CT] - 4/2/2009

Sen Menendez, Robert [NJ] - 4/2/2009

Sen Reed, Jack [RI] - 4/2/2009

Sen Sanders, Bernard [VT] - 4/2/2009

Sen Stabenow, Debbie [MI] - 4/2/2009

Sen Udall, Mark [CO] - 5/6/2009

Sen Whitehouse, Sheldon [RI] - 4/2/2009

Please take the time to write to your elected representatives, and tell them enough is enough! Most of these lands do not meet the original intent of the Wilderness Act of 1964 “A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.”

If we want to have anyplace left in Utah to recreate, we need to stop this land grab again NOW!

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**cnckart** · 05-14-2009, 09:15 PM

I have lived in Utah my whole life, and have been going to Moab for 20+ years now. They have closed so much land in that time its ridiculous. I don't know if it was private land, and now they have just fenced it in or what. But it is a lot. There was an awesome canyon up the pot ash road that had some great camping, and hiking spots, they closed a few years ago. Pisses me off that a rep. from Illinois introduced this bill. Probably never even been to Utah. There is so much wilderness in this stae, and a lot of the time the only way to see it is in a truck, or on a dirtbike or atv. The distances are just too great for foot traffic. The roads are already there, as long as people tread lightly what's the problem. I will write my reps for sure. I don't think this will go to far in legislation to be honest with you. That is a lot of tourism revenue out the door for this state. Our Gov. (Huntsman) is also an outdoors advocate, which definately helps. Thanks for bringing this out into the light,

RadoRoo · 05-14-2009, 09:18 PM

email sent to Sen. Mark Udall.....thanks!

TrAiLbUs1 · 05-14-2009, 09:22 PM

AWESOME thanks guys....some like to overlook these closures because "I've never been there...or its not in my state" but as time goes this will happen to all of the lands..just like the Eastern United states takes hours just to find a trail

THANKS AGAIN for helping keep our trails open! This benefits everyone...and allows access to people WHO CANT make it due to injuries and or disabilities!

**Woodsman** · 05-14-2009, 10:26 PM

If only I could solve this by putting my hands around someone's neck and squeezing really hard.

No, seriously.

Racer001 · 05-15-2009, 08:24 AM

Quote:

Woodsman previously said:

If only I could solve this by putting my hands around someone's neck and squeezing really hard.

No, seriously.

awesome.

Manhattan · 05-15-2009, 08:55 AM

Well as an East Coast wheeler I can tell you this **** is happening fast - we just lost Tellico. Tellico is... was our Hammers and Moab combined. Possibly the best set of trails on the East Coast. Now, they're closed - all of them.

Where are the big and really big companies in all this? Where are Toyota, Jeep, Rancho, BFG, Warn, Ford, SuperLift, etc. Sure, they've got their own problems (hey, I didn't list Chrysler) but come on... if the sport of off-roading goes away completely (the greenies' goal) they're not going to sell nearly as much stuff...

Maybe this is why Fox is so focused on mountain bike suspension. I can see it now: BFG mountain bike tires, SuperLift downhill bikes, Goodrich stainless steel shifter and brake cables... Don't laugh, there's talk of converting the Tellico trails into mountain bike trails.